Trump Wants a Contest to See Which Network Is Most Dishonest, Winner Gets Fake News Trophy

President Donald Trump fired off a new round of mockery at the media on Monday, offering to create the “Fake News Trophy” for America’s worst TV network.

“We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!” Trump tweeted Monday.

We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!

Trump had been disparaging the mainstream media over the weekend as well.

.@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!

“[email protected] is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!” he wrote Saturday.

A recent study confirmed that the news media has been highly negative of Trump.

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A Pew Research Center study of Trump’s first 60 days as president found that only 5 percent of the media coverage of him and his administration was positive.

In contrast, 42 percent of the early coverage of former President Barack Obama was positive, the study found. Bill Clinton got 27 percent positive coverage in his first 60 days, and George W. Bush received 22 percent.

The media’s attacks on Trump have cost it dearly, one analyst noted.

“The unhinged coverage of all Trump scandals, real and imagined, has cost the media in the eyes of the public, among whom only 39 percent said they had a “great deal” or even “some” confidence in news outlets last November,” Kyle Smith of National Review wrote in an op-ed published in the New York Post.

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“As of last month, still only 48 percent of Americans said they trusted the media, with 45 percent saying they have “hardly any” confidence in it. In other words, it’s basically a coin flip as to whether any given American thinks the media is just making stuff up,” he added.

“The media are correct in thinking they have an important duty in the Trump era. But the people are correct in noticing that the media is filtering everything through an obsessive hatred for Trump.”

The media’s bias was also noted by Louis Sarkozy, a student of philosophy and religion at New York University and the youngest son of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

“Outlets such as CNN are particularly guilty of filtering opinions, because they only invite Trump supporters on air a vast minority of the time,” Sarkozy wrote in a Washington Examiner op-ed.

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“And when a well-spoken right-leaning individual is on air, (for this, I invite you to witness it for yourself), they are often not given as much time to properly explain their views as their left-leaning counterparts are, and sometimes are treated with the utmost disrespect.”

Sarkozy said that limiting the flow of opinions is “a disgrace in regards to the interdiction of a specific opinion and the censorship of diversity of thought” and is also “very clearly politically-motivated.”

“As the famed writer Christopher Hitchens once said: ‘Every time you silence someone you make yourself a prisoner of your own action because you deny yourself the right to hear something,'” Sarkozy wrote.

“And that is exactly what these outlets and platforms are guilty of doing, pushing a political narrative while at the same time censoring differing views in order for their political equivalents to prosper. This makes it intrinsically hard for any free-thinking individual with the wish to gather reliable news and form sensible opinions based on unadulterated facts.”